linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/virtio: Support partial maps of GEM objects

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Message-ID: <0820162d-f6d2-400e-b14b-86954d475d37@collabora.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:23:31 +0300
From: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>
To: Sasha Finkelstein <fnkl.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
 Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>, Chia-I Wu
 <olvaffe@...il.com>, Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 asahi@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/virtio: Support partial maps of GEM objects

On 1/19/25 23:02, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> On 1/19/25 19:18, Sasha Finkelstein wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 12:50, Dmitry Osipenko
>> <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com> wrote:
>>>>       ret = io_remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
>>>> -                              vram->vram_node.start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
>>>> +                              (vram->vram_node.start >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff,
>>>>                                vm_size, vma->vm_page_prot);
>>>>       return ret;
>>>>  }
>>>
>>> The vma->vm_pgoff is fake in DRM, it's used for looking up DRM GEM
>>> object based on the vma->vm_pgoff value when mmap is invoked.
>>
>> If my understanding is correct, vm_pgoff gets "unfaked" by
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.6/source/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vram.c#L48
>>
>>> vma->vm_pgoff should be treated as zero here. Hence we can map a part of
>>> GEM, but only from its start. See drm_gem_mmap().
>>
>> I've had a "v0" (not on ml) of this patch that always treated vma->vm_pgoff as
>> zero. This broke when anything tried to mmap with a non-zero offset. Adding
>> vm_pgoff made it work correctly.
> 
> I've tested this patch. Partial mapping with a non-zero offset doesn't
> work because drm_gem_mmap() rejects it. I'd want to see your sample code
> that performs mmaping, maybe I'm missing something.
> 
>>> Please correct vma->vm_pgoff in v2.
>>
>> I need apps to be able to mmap with a non-zero offset for my usecase.
>> While the correct value may be something else other than what is in
>> the current patch, 0 is definitely incorrect for at least some workloads.
> 
> drm_gem_mmap() uses drm_vma_offset_exact_lookup_locked() that doesn't
> allow vma->vm_pgoff != node.start. AFAICT, no one driver supports
> mapping with a non-zero offset, perhaps for a reason that I don't know
> about.

See now that a non-zero mapping of a dmabuf might work. Will test it.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry